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Tudor Monastery Farm

  • 2013
  • Ended
  • Documentary · Reality
  • ~1h / ep
  • 1 season
  • 9.1/10

Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold turn the clock back 500 years to the early Tudor period to become tenant farmers on monastery land.

Latest: Season 1 · 2013

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  1. E1. Episode 1

    Nov 13, 2013 · 60m

    Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold run a farm exactly as it would have been in 1500.

  2. E2. Episode 2

    Nov 20, 2013 · 60m

    A look at wool production in 1500, which accounted for around half the country's wealth.

  3. E3. Episode 3

    Nov 27, 2013 · 60m

    This episode focuses on the staple foods of everyday Tudor life - bread and ale.

  4. E4. Episode 4

    Dec 4, 2013 · 60m

    The team learn how aspirational tenant farmers would have decorated their farmhouses.

  5. E5. Episode 5

    Dec 11, 2013 · 60m

    The team explores Tudor hospitality, learning how the monasteries courted wealthy donors.

  6. E6. Episode 6

    Dec 18, 2013 · 60m

    The team look back at how Henry VIII's Dissolution brought an end to monastic farming.